Several thousand earthquakes have been recorded near the Greek island since late January. So why is this happening?

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

More than 11,000 people have already left the island of Santorini in recent days.

More than 11,000 people have already left the island of Santorini following a series of tremors in recent days.

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.S. West Coast, and some scientists ...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has rattled southern Texas in the vicinity of San Antonio, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...

This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...

Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of cold sunken ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found lurking below Africa and the Pacific Ocean, entombed some 1,200 miles below the ...